State v. Short’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appeals to the supreme court may be taken by the state in the following cases, and no other: . . . third, upon a question reserved by the state.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Glaze · State v. Marek

2. ““But for this statutory right conferred on the state, an erroneous ruling of a trial court might completely and permanently frustrate the administration of justice within the judicial district presided over by the particular judge who made such ruling. It might result that in an entire judicial bailiwick of a district judge comprising half a dozen counties some feature of the blue-sky law, or the antitrust law, or any other penal statute, would be judicially nullified by an erroneous interpretation of some feature of any such act, while in other judicial bailiwicks other trial judges were giving an interpretation to them that resulted in general obedience to their terms. The way provided by our criminal code to prevent such a situation is by granting to the state the right to reserve for appellate review any adverse ruling which the state’s official prosecutors deem of sufficient importance to the proper administration of justice to bring to this court’s attention for authoritative determination.” (p. 237.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Reed

3. ““While the statute is not as precisely drawn to avoid debatable problems of interpretation as might be desired, the legislative intent has been to place the traffic of promoting and dealing in speculative securities under rigid governmental control; and the only exemption therefrom is that accorded to the good-faith owner of such securities who acquires them and seeks to sell them on his own account in the ordinary course of business and not for the direct or indirect promotion of any blue-sky enterprise within the purview of the act.” (p. 236.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hodge